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diff friend. She This year she performed America the Beautiful
at the Super Bowl. I watched it. I was slapping
like my girl. She is a former school teacher and
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HBC you graduate and a proud mom. She's a Grammy
winning a Grammy Award winning gospel superstar who is abundant
with love, faith and wisdom. She has on the show
to talk about her Landa Adam's Handbags. You're Linda Aldams
Bath and Beauty Line. Please welcome back to Money Making Conversations.
My friend, you're Linda Albams. Well, you know we're happy
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to have you on the show. My staff when we
were going through the book of This is landa Adam times.
What you mean? You know, every year by Madams on
this show because you helped me launch my show in
twent seventeen, and every year you come on the show,
and my my listeners love you. They they know, the
ones that don't know you become fans of yours. And uh,
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and just show you how much I you know, we're
gonna talk about the Aldam's handbag in a minute. But
this week every nine Am I sent my um my
news letter off to my fans. I got over the
eighty thousand fan club members and and your and your
link was the most clicked link in the newsletter. And
for the handbags. And they're beautiful too, by the way,
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they are amazing handbags. Tell us about that right quick.
You know, I am a girly girl. I grew up
with a girly girl as a mom and a girly
girl as a grandma. My grandma's were a girly girl,
so uh, we always met the handbags, the scarves, the gloves,
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the shoes, everything was you know, you had a you
had a specific thing that went with a specific thing,
and you know, the older I got, you know, the
more prosperous I got. I was able to buy some
things that you know, cost a little money. And then
I'm started figuring, I'm like, no, wait a minute, I'm
giving all these people all this money. What about my fans?
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Because people always ask me who are you wearing? Who
was that by? And I I started thinking, now my
fans can't buy a all of my fans, I'll say,
I can't buy a six hundred dollar bags. But what
if I could give them the same quality, uh, and
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the same fashion, the same design, the same classic styles
at a fraction of the price, and then they could
take a piece of your lawn to home with them
or you know, ship it to a loved one or whatever.
And that's pretty much how it happened. And of course,
you know, we are surrounded by amazing people who do
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all types of things. You know, there's no sense of
me trying to reinvent the wheel if someone has already
success done it. And that's one that's one of the
things that you have taught so well. When you know
someone who does something, merge with them, you know, uh,
you know, do a joint venture or something like that
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with them. So that you come you both come out
on top. And we talked to the manufacturer and they
were like, oh, of course, we love you and we
think that that would be a we would have a
great synergy there, because synergy is very important. You know,
both sides are doing something that uh makes both of
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them happy and making money at the same time. It
really is about that, you know. Let's let's talk about
the collection, because I got it pulled up, because I
got I got six sisters and I'm gonna buy. I'm
gonna buy. I'm gonna tell you somebody I didn't. I
just want to announce you. You You will get a little
little search from the McDonald name. Because the clutches are outstanding,
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the cross bodies outstanding, the everything bag is outstanding, the
leather handbags, the neon, the neon bags are beautiful, you know,
and the toad, the shoulder bags, the satchels. It's just
the wallets. It's just how much involvement that you have
in the whole putting together the collection. Yalanda, Well, here's
the thing. I'm always hands on because I want no
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Number one. I want to know what my customer is getting, right.
That's first thing. They will never put out a product
that I don't use and carry myself. When you see
me show up to anything, whether it's a red carpet
or whatever, if I have a bag in my hand,
it's a y A bag bag. I love that. There
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you go, you see me going to church, it's the
YI bag. If you see me, you know, out having dinner,
well before the pandemic bag. And and again I know
that the quality of these bags are so amazing because
these the manufacturers. The same guy who does UM bags
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for bergdof does bags for Macy's and Bloomingdale's and all
of those places. So that was definitely important to me.
Next was the design and the fashion flares. Be on
point with what's out there right now, because I want
anybody saying, well, you know, I like her bag, but
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you know they're like about you know, nice in the nineties. No, no, no,
we are on par with what what happens during fashion
week every twice a year. So you'll you'll never see um,
you know, unless it's a classic bag like the tailor bag,
like the Boss Lady bag. Uh that you know, those
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are classics that can you can get them at any time.
You know, those are great. But I am not going to,
you know, as flowers are in like they were last season,
I am not going to not have bags without flowers.
Thank you. You know. Here's the beautiful thing that I'm
talking to. Landa adams Um. Everybody knows from her career
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as a singer. She but I've known her as a
motivational person as an entrepreneur. That's the side of her always.
We always speak about when she comes on one amazing
conversation because of the fact that you know, and I
love when you threw out the word why a bag?
You know, that's that's that's branding to the max right there,
breaking down making the initials mean something, and like the
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quality is what I'm just looking at it because of
the fact that I know I can see you walking
with that bag and looking normal, looking like it's part
of your style. That's what I loved about it. And
that's why when I'm looking at it now, I'm going, wow,
you know, but I don't feel like intimidated. If a
person who wasn't a lot of the albums with this bag,
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they would look natural and they would look dressed up
or depending on what they want to want to satural,
they want the water they want, while they want to
shoulder bag they want throw over all these different options
really makes for like people. A person really can can
actually buy the collection, Yes, they actually can. Yeah, And
and it's reasonable enough that you can buy more than one.
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And it's you know, if you want the higher end bags,
we have those, but we I refused to make them
higher than you know, a certain amount, because uh, you know,
I just think I want to be cogressens of where
everyone is in their life. And here's the fourth sight
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of this Rashan. You and I had no idea that
this pandemic was coming, right, And so where a person
cannot afford a thousand dollar bag, five hundred dollar bag,
a two hundred dollar bag, they can go to the
website and they can they can look at it and say,
wha this is This bag looks setilar to that twelve
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hundred dollar back right and looking good, looking good, Yes,
and nobody would know the difference. And the thing about
it is that that's why when when I brought you
on the show, I want to make sure people know
I'm engaged. I'm not just bringing you on the show
to talk about it. And I like to believe you
I grew up with six sisters. You know, I have
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a sense of that fashion of what my sisters wore
or where, And I've been in the entertainment business assists
of what that price line that you and then then
I've entertained everyday people, and that's what it calls about.
Everyday people will being able to reach it to their budget.
And but when you go to the website, when you
go to there and watch these bags, you've got to
buy something. I'll just tell you, if you don't want
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to buy something, don't go to the website because it's
gonna pull you in like it pull your bay in.
And now I'm six deeper with my sisters. He's one
of the things that you have always been so brilliant
in and You've always taught me that you always find
the price point that matches the people who follow you.
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You know, I I love ten thousand dollar bags. I
don't own a ten thousand dollar bag because I think that,
you know, I'd rather have ten thousand dollars worth of
stock right right right. But you know, my thing is
how many of my fans and family as I call them,
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would really invest because that's an investment in ten thousand
dollars as opposed to let's say, uh six, absolutely absolutely,
I have to agree, you know, and I'm just gonna
stop people out there, people out there buying these knockoffs.
You you're spending more on bad knockoffs that would for
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quality y A bag. There you go, There you go.
And you've always taught there's there's more security and numbers
than just the you know, the branding, and we know
branding is awesome. Yes, yes, I would rather have I
would rather sell ten thousand y A bag at their
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price than to sell to at ten thousand dollars. There
you go, There you go. We're on the same page
with money making conference speaking to your Landa Adams London.
Let me describe this. We're gonna transition to the next
product that she she's she's out there selling us an
entrepreneur over the years. It's called simply your Landa. It's
a bath and body collection. Let me read this. Through
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the creation of the simply your Landa collection, she aims
to improve the lives of others by improving the skin
through products from high quality knows what I say, high
quality and greenies. As long as you say it's my
passion for creating. This line stems from the same passion
I possess when creating music is all about being spiritually,
emotionally and physically well yeah, balance, you have to have
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balance in your life. And our our largest organ, there's
our stan and it's usually the part of us that
we do not take care of the most, you know,
and that's from the top of your head to the
soles of your feet, as they say in the church. Absolutely,
absolutely you know, and it's really about you know. It's
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when it's too late for you know. And and one
of the things I want to talk about for some reason,
early on and when I was in high school, you know,
I understood my face, so I understood you know, all
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these skin I just do you know, uh, pores and
getting dirt out of my poor to washing with cold water,
washing with warm water. One water opens your pores, cold water,
ice closes your pores. And what the reason I want
to bring up this about is that we as African
Americans and we know what we're dealing with in these
pandemic times. You know, we'll we'll we'll we'll be we're
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higher victims or the COVID nineteen. And it starts with care,
and it starts with spending time. And again we come
into a product bathroom, your bathroom body collection where guess
what the price point is very reasonable? Talk about that. Well,
here's the thing. As I got older, I realized that
my skin and my body were changing. Uh you know me,
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I am a health nut I have always taken care
of myself nutritionally, spiritually, and physically, and I found that
the products that I was using, they were costing a
lot of money and I was not seeing the results
that I wanted. So I got with a friend of
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ours and UM, I said, you know what I've been thinking,
can really hard about creating my own bath and bodyline.
You know that was that we had the candles at first,
and it was like, oh my gosh, if you do that,
I will be a part of your your team. And um,
we got with a scientists who was privy to some
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of the really higher in um cosmetics and and and
and pharmaceuticals and skin suticals and all of those things
that nurture the skin. And I told him, Hey, this
is the thing that we have to do. We have
to cleanse the skin, but we have to leave a
seal of moisture in there so people don't have to
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continually use the flay, you know, over and over and
over again during during the day, because people don't have
that kind of time. They get in the shower, they
get out of the shower moisturized, they're headed to work
or headed to wherever they're going to go and so
you you know, I know all these influencers are doing
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a lot of things right now. I mean, but they're
at home in front of cameras. So there are real people,
more than eight billion in the world, that have a
whole bunch to do that really don't have that kind
of time. And I said, so I need I need
a body wash. I need a body soul, which is
a moisturizer, and I need a body oil because there
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are some people who can't do you know, the South
flay for whatever reason, but they can do the oils.
And I said, I definitely need a price point where
all my people can get it. But it has to
be so amazing that uh, they'll come back each and
every time. And we have the love and the chocolate
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that have been I mean, we've been doing the bodyline
since two thousand and twelves. We know, it's really interesting.
Because I'm gonna talk to the men here, okay, because
we always jump out there with the elbows as she
and the ankles look like cracking on our you know,
we don't. You know, I'm gonna tell you this, I
look really bad. The other day my wife had to
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check me where you're going. Where are you going with
no socks? Where are you going with no socks? And
so and so that's what Let's let's go back to
the body. All okay, So let's have you know we
our skin. God gave us our bodies, okay, and we
all it's gonna naturally deteriorate, but it doesn't have to
naturally deteriorate fast if you take care of if you
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take care and that's what this that's what this call
is about. It's about it's about taking care of you.
And and you have a product. From a stylish standpoint,
you can go out there from a fashion standpoint, take
care of your budget, take care of you. Look now
we're talking about the physical side of you when you're
walking out there. How you how you wash down, how
you put all on your face, Like I have a
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ball head. So you know, I slapped that body all
on my head, okay, And so because that's what it
does for me, Because I was walking out the door,
you know, I was just shaving and then put a
put a towel and white dry off the top. But
guess what it would kind of like start looking like
it was cracking up there, you know, until I started
putting the body all on it. I'm just being honest
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with you, Landa. I use your products because your products
make me feel better and look better. Thank you so much.
And that is you know, that's our intention. Our intention
is not just you know, to be in your life
for just the sales. You know, we want to know
how you feel about it, because that's one of the
things that we say. It just feels better, you know. Um.
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I knew that, uh as we move into these um
these times where the sun it's uh, it's hotter, it
seems like the sun it seems like a former uh climate. Uh,
it stays with us longer than the winter and longer
that's fall. You know, you have to have something that
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combats that. And so when then like, well what about
to men's product, Well that's what the chocolate is for,
thank you, you know the men you know, and I
have some brothers who use love as well, because they
say it reminds them of, you know, a softer kind
of smell that they don't have to worry about whether
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it will clash with their cologne. Chocolate is not going
to clash with your cologne. I wanted to make sure
that you could layer this product. Product, smell good, feel good,
nourish the skin, cleanse the skin, and then you know,
and and get out there and do your thing in
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the world. Well you're doing that. That's that's why obviously
did everybody knows that just because you own online that
says female products. Okay, these products are available for everybody,
especially being and well we all want to out there searching.
Stop searching, let's go to as she gotta fight. She
got product over here that allows you to to take
care of you. Like I said, you know of the
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elbow where where where men fail. We fell on that elbow.
We feel on those ankles or ankles, but we die
and they're told we forget all of our toes and
that's why we get bad. That's told look bad in
the summer. Summer's coming. Start getting those toes right by
getting the right product. And you're lying. I wanted to
bring you on the show just to talk about that
because of the fact that I support you. You know,
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you don't have to you don't have to ask me
if if you want to, if you would not have
done my interview today. And I just you know, this
is inspiration for me. I get something that's interview when
you when you do it as well as you get
something that we both were to our kinship. But I
have to support things I feel fit African American UH budget.
I feel that makes them look good. But I get
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tired of us going out there buying products that don't uh,
that don't suit your budget, buying knockoffs, buying products that
look extreme. But you can buy a collection of you
can buy a collection of your handbags. You can buy
a collection of your products, and you can keep winning.
That's you know, that's a that's the beauty of what
you're doing with your brains. Have you have you taken
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to like everybody's doing these Instagram lives? And have you
have you done like a little store yet live online? Yet?
Have you done yet? You know we're about to, you know,
have the U I had the the Oprah thing. I
had a bunch of things, you know. And I am
very protective of my aecial family. I don't wanna, you know,
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be out there just to be out there. I want,
you know, I I protect my people. And when you know,
when when um, when the pandemic started, I talked to
all of my manufacturers. I talked to all of my distributors.
I'm like, listen, I need a portion of this money
to go to you know, feed the hungry. I need
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of this money to go to cooking for kids. I
need a portion of this money to go to store
and so and so on. So. So when you buy
any y A products or simply you long the product
you are really poor in. You know, you may not
be able to go out and feed somebody because they're
a stay at home thing in your state or in
your city. But can know that with the purchase of
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these things, you are actually feeding people. You are actually
providing water, You're actually providing clothing. Awesome, actually providing assistance
to the homeless folks who don't have what you have.
So you know, it's it's always been and that's another
thing that you have always taught us as well. Have
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a good cause, uh, surrounding your brands. Don't just take
take take, be in the position to give. And I
am so thankful that I am in the position to
get awesome. Let's uh, I want to make sure that
I get clear what I'm asking you to do. I'm
asking you have you considered just going live with your
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bags and your daughter? Is that gonna happen because I
want to promote it because I just see this as
a you know, QVC I a back and body moment,
because that's what people are accepting, that that the pandemic
has shown us that people are into, especially African American community,
are in tune. We're going online. We understand the online process,
and we know you have a reputable name. So if
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we buy what you are all from, we're gonna get it.
So where you're atting the planning stages with that, if
it's well, we're almost of course, you know, everything has
to go through attorney, so Mr rick Attorney Ricky, and
that sealed up and before before the middle of June,
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we will have all of that done. Okay, let me know,
so I can apply my social media to it and
my fan clubs and drive traffic just like I did
trap drove traffic the prefence in Obama for his hbcuth
speech on Saturday, and so it's it's using our relationships
that build that. But before we close, I got you know,
we always have two amazing people we love and our daughters.
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My daughter goes to Universe Houston, your daughter go to
Howard University. Any updates of It's brag time right now,
because I'm gonna bragg in a minute. I'm gonna let
you brag first. Well has successfully finished her sophomore years.
Is how a uh matriculating junior as they say, yes, yes, yes,
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thriving jr. And um. The pandemic you know, the stay
at home, you know, quarantine kind of thing kind of
got to her at first because she was so used
to the camaraderie of you know, being around uh everybody.
But it made her stronger in the end, because of
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course they were zooming and face timing and doing all
the skypes and stuff like that, and and it showed
her how strong she really was. And so I you know,
I told her, I'm like, hey, this pandemic, this arrant
to teach you who you are even more. And you know,
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it's really interesting you're saying that, because that happened with
my daughter. You know, she she would be she finished
the semester, she will be a senior moving forward. Close.
She closed out her classes online at the University of Houston,
and at first when she came up, she was just
in her room all the time, you know, it's on
her computer. And then she started coming out and said,
your dad, you need me to do something for you.
You need me to go somewhere with you. I got
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the you know, got the mask. They got nobody. She
knows about social distance and she travels with the hand sanitized.
I got. She's quipped she got a kid when she
leaves the house and so and so I watching how
she's starting to clean up the house and we've sitting
on the porch on Sunday, I sat down and just
talked to her, and that just having mature conversations with
my daughter. It's something I've never had because I'm always
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traveling and I'm always there on the road. And so
I know that watching a young lady, a young girl
become a young lady. As you're watching a young girl
become a young lady, and and and watching them deal
with global asked for the first time in their lives,
there wasn't playing. That's where you know, you know, you
tell your kids you're gonna graduate, you gotta get a job.
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But nobody saw this comment. And so that's a stress.
What you're saying. I understand because I've seen it play
out of my daughter. And I tell everybody it's a
blessing to see. Take your time and walk through them
with conversation. Don't you agree? Oh my god, yes, that's
the biggest thing you can give you a child is
time and an ear. Wow, that's awesome. When you learned,
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I want I want to hold you any longer. You
know again, I want to bring you on the show
to talk about your why are you Landa Adams handbags?
What you You can get online right now or you
can go to my news letter. And also this week
I'll be promoting the Bathroom Beauty Line, which is simply
your Landa, which is amazing. I use it. I used
it for my head, I used it for my ankles,
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your body, your lundon up. Now I gotta go and
live today and buy some bags for my sisters so
they can start smiling. I wish I saw this link
before Mother's Day, but I didn't see it. So they're
gonna get it for a memorial. Keep all right, my friend,
you'd be safe and thank you and thank you, thank you,
thank you. I'm gonna get in touch with Rickey to
get some more, some more or photos so we could
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do the bath and Beauty h line collection today and
this weekend newsletter if you get a little bump in
there because of your handbag, knows your boy are here
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